I feel like this every year highlights the difference between “the data” and “the story” better than any other example I can think of.
Ana@wavelettes
Spotify wrapped is people waiting all winter for like 2 sql queries that’s wild
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Ryan McCauley
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Ryan McCauley
@SqlRyan
SQL Server developer, data mining enthusiast, general solution-finder, supporter of innovation, and fan of making T-SQL do really fun stuff. he/him.
Phoenix, AZ Beigetreten Eylül 2011
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@hannnsssen @SketchesbyBoze First read this book in class about 25 years ago and it’s amazing - thank you for the reminder to read it again :)
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@SketchesbyBoze Not exactly a classic but maybe it counts by way of being required so much in schools, Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael? Everyone in my class HATED it but I remember being enthralled and reading it twice before the deadline. Don’t remember many details now though
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We talk a lot about classic books we hated; I want to hear about the ones you LOVED. Tell me about an experience where you picked up a classic and it melted your face with pleasure. Tell me about the funniest, strangest, scariest, saddest great books you ever read.
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@jb_61820 @Madisonkanna 2/3 are huge and something a lot of developers I’ve worked with (and me earlier in my career) commonly miss - developers don’t just write software or build things, they make somebody’s job or the customers’s life easier. If you can see the points of friction and fix them, do it.
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1) Work in an actual industry, not in a "tech space". Tech companies overhire, overpay, then overfire. Industries don't have such a big swing.
2) Contribute work that delivers value to the company. I've seen many developers more concerned about their own code-as-art than the company's bottom line. You *can* care about your code-as-art, but you **must** care more about delivering value to your employer. Think about your salary. Are you delivering at minimum 4x your salary? If not, why should they keep paying you?
3) Solve problems - if we've learned anything, it is that solving problems is what people really want. Tech is just a means to that.
4) Combine 2 & 3 and find problems (real problems, not invented ones) that need solving, perhaps that no one else sees, and be the solution.
5) It's all your job. Don't think "that's not my job". By default it is.
6) Don't get greedy on pay. Modern people always ignore second-order effects. If you are greedy on pay you can be assured that management is figuring out how to make your position unimportant.
To sum up, we often lose sight of the goal of tech - order-of-magnitude enhanced productivity. Instead, we get so enamored by it we tend to think of doing tech-for-tech's-sake, but that is what leads us to no longer being relevant.
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it's a weird time to be a programmer
- everyone's saying our jobs will be gone soon
- layoffs have hit so many of us
developers, what are you doing to stay valuable and future-proof your career?
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@rrhoover Find my phone, though never an issue until I got the watch to begin with :) I go camping often so the compass and waypoints without my phone out are really nice, and I also filter notifications so I actually check my phone less. Rarely use any actual watch apps.
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I’ve never owned an Apple Watch and still have no interest.
Other than health tracking, what do y’all use it for?
(imo, making notifications more accessible is a bug, not a feature)
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@austinkleon If you liked peewee, the recent “Peewees big holiday” was shockingly fun. I’d also recommend “coin heist” if you’re up for a kid-friendly heist movie - not amazing but pretty fun as well and enjoyed it with the family. This is a great list that we’ll use!
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A bunch of folks asked for the full rundown of the movies I’ve watched with my two boys, so here are my pizza + movie logbooks 2021-2024
More about our Friday night ritual here: austinkleon.substack.com/p/pizza-night-…
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So, we’ve been doing pizza night and a movie for about 4 years now, and, I’m sorry, you can disagree, but there just aren’t that many knockout movies for kids under 10 out there
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@LWaterbury @LaComtesseJamie Came here to say that it looks like a baller Perry. My youngest just started crocheting too and yours is off to a great start!!
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@LaComtesseJamie I suspect this penguin is a relative of Perry the Platypus. Perry and Pengu team up regularly to save the world. “Not looking like the picture” is part of what makes Pengu so good at the job … they’re a master of subterfuge and disguise.
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@andruyeung For my current employer, it was 20 weeks paid parental leave (birth and adoption, both parents) in the US where zero is required - we’re done having kids so it’s a benefit I’ll never personally use, but it made clear that they support families and flexibility isn’t lip service.
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What are the green flags that a company is a great place to work at?
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Ryan McCauley retweetet
For the past four years it’s been my job - nay, my PLEASURE - to be the tweeter behind the @OKWildlifeDept account. This is my final post.
It’s been my absolute honor to roast and ratio some of you into the ground in the name of science. Let’s take a trip down memory lane: 🧵
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation@OKWildlifeDept
DO NOT FEED WILDLIFE. IF YOU’RE GOING TO SHARE A DONUT - AT LEAST ASK US IF WE WANT IT FIRST. BECAUSE WE DO. WE LOVE DONUTS. DO NOT GIVE IT TO WILDLIFE - IT IS BAD FOR THEM - AND IT ALSO MEANS LESS DONUTS FOR US. MAKE BETTER CHOICES.
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Ryan McCauley retweetet
Maybe everybody already knows this but if you use Excel, you Control-Shift-V might be the greatest shortcut ever. It pastes just the values, no formatting, as plain text including flattens formulas into their result. It's saved me SOOOO much grief. That is all.
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@orblightning @lauriewired I used to have a bunch of downloaded demos from farbrasch that were like this - insane amounts of graphics demo crammed into tiny EXE files and there were whole competitions. They don’t all run on newer windows though :( en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farbrausch
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@lauriewired oh god wasn't there something like this like, 15-20 years ago that did doom or a maze or something? iirc it took insane cpu to render out
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This graphics demo contains less bytes than the URL of this twitter post.
Clocking in at just 256 bytes of WebAssembly, it contains a wave simulation, sky + water shaders, transparency, vignettes, etc.
The trick of adjusting the color pallet by direct memory manipulation is quite interesting. I look forward to more WASM demoscenes in the future.
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@MSPowerBI Are there any plans to add “Analyze/Explain the increase” functionality to Report Server? I’ve been hopeful for years and I just had another case where’s I’d love to have used it so crossing my fingers…..
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@ahmadaccino I think the most basic audio feature the Mac is missing is permanently disabling an audio output. When I plug into my dock, the Mac says “sweet, speakers on your monitor, let’s use those” and I say “no, bad Mac” and switch back. Then next time I dock, it says “sweet, speakers…”
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how has macos not been able to do the most basic of audio features: the volume mixer
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@DynamicWebPaige I want a 20-questions style interview process that asks me questions like “will people access this over the internet” and “are you okay writing your own database queries” and then uses that to recommend 5 platforms/frameworks with reasons why they’re ranked that way.
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everybody's building a bazillion libraries and tools and frameworks
but no one's building the thing that automatically suggests which one to prefer based on your unique use case, requirements, constraints, and skill level
I want an in-IDE feature that says "hey, someone already built something like that function you're trying to implement; here's a pointer to the code, and I've updated that snippet to use your version of Python and imported modules"
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@t_redactyl Hmm I don’t know that I’ve ever said it out loud but it’s like pip in my head - pip pea. I suppose that’s wrong no matter what, and a podcast I listen to keeps calling it pie P I so I figured that’s the official way. What I’ve learned from your two answer poll is that there’s >2
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@jkellyjr @StaceyKade Just bought it and reading it now - I’ve been waiting eagerly and I’m trying not to go too fast because I know I’ll be sad it’s over once I finish and have to wait a whole year for Cold Eternity!
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A sighting in the wild! Good book if you haven't already checked it out....Ghost Station by @StaceyKade
#BookTwitter
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@sewistwrites If it’s non-fiction then Weapons of math destruction by @mathbabedotorg late last year (sadly my most recent NF book) and for fiction, Last to Leave the Room by @see_starling last month. Honorable mention of Dead Silence by @StaceyKade just before though.
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@tobinjstone Oh man, last election I thought it would be funny if I wrote myself in for “Mine inspector” because there were no official candidates and got a few friends in too. “Surely there’s no way I win” - I wonder how close I got or if I’m the Mine Inspector now and nobody has told me…
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Throwback to when I accidentally won elected office in 2021.
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@philkellr @richter_ac I think it’s super similar but I made the mistake of calling it “2D Minecraft” to my kids once and they lost it, insisting they’re nothing alike…
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@richter_ac This looks great! Nice 8bit flair.
It's similar to minecraft, yes?
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I wanna play a multiplayer game with my 16y son
Should be low learning curve
Available on mac and windows
Suggestions?
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Whenever I see an interface that looks like it’s been around a while, I wonder what the story is. Here’s one :) Now on to wondering how long it’s been since the Outlook rules editing screen has been touched…
Dave W Plummer@davepl1968
I wrote this Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was. We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from Windows95 that we had to come up with some custom UI. I got out a piece of paper and wrote down all the options and choices you could make with respect to formatting a disk, like filesystem, label, cluster size, compression, encryption, and so on. Then I busted out VC++2.0 and used the Resource Editor to lay out a simple vertical stack of all the choices you had to make, in the approximate order you had to make. It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived. That was some 30 years ago, and the dialog is still my temporary one from that Thursday morning, so be careful about checking in "temporary" solutions! I also had to decide how much "cluster slack" would be too much, and that wound up constraining the format size of a FAT volume to 32GB. That limit was also an arbitrary choice that morning, and one that has stuck with us as a permanent side effect. So remember... there are no "temporary" checkins :) Follow me for more random code musings!
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